Contraband Page #3

Synopsis: Chris Faraday once smuggled illegal items or contraband into the country on freighters. He left that life behind, got married, has a family and went legit. But when his brother-in-law got involved with Briggs, a drug dealer and when he blew a deal, Briggs demands restitution which he can't deliver. So Chris offers to find a way to pay Briggs but then he threatens Chris' family if he doesn't deliver. So he gets on a freighter destined for Panama and he sets out to bring back some counterfeit currency. Briggs "goes to see" Chris' family. When Chris learns of this he asks his friend Sebastian to take care of them which he does. He tells Chris that it would be better to bring drugs instead of the cash.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Baltasar Kormákur
Production: Universal Pictures
  1 win.
 
IMDB:
6.5
Metacritic:
51
Rotten Tomatoes:
51%
R
Year:
2012
109 min
$66,489,425
Website
601 Views


What do you want me

to say, man?

Not a f***ing word!

I didn't have

anybody to tell me

I was f***ing up. You do!

And you put your sister

and the boys in this sh*t?

What the f*** is

wrong with you?

(RAP MUSIC PLAYING)

Whoa.

You don't come

to my f***ing place.

I just came to tell you

that I'm going to have

your money within a month.

Just stay away from Andy.

I ain't waiting that long.

Well, I ain't paying

if he's dead.

If a guy dies

owing something,

his family inherits

the debt.

So I'll give you

two weeks.

If not,

I'm going to come

after the both of you.

Then, all the way

down the line.

I'll come asking

your wife for it,

your kids...

(GRUNTING)

Do you think

you're the only guy

with a f***ing gun?

You'll get your

f***ing money.

But if you ever

mention my wife

and my kids again,

you're done.

You hear me?

You are f***ing done!

GIRL:
Daddy.

BRIGGS:
It's okay, sweetie.

Go back inside.

It's okay, sweetie.

Daddy and I were

just playing, okay?

It's okay.

Yeah, we're just playing.

Yeah, me and Daddy

were just f***ing playing.

Get up there.

Yeah, we'll play again.

Daddy is okay.

It's all right.

What the f***

are you looking at?

(SHIP HORN BLOWING)

CHRIS:
You stay in the car,

I'll go talk to her.

ANDY:
Okay.

JEANIE:
Hey, Chris.

Hey, how are you?

Hi.

Hey.

Everything okay?

Yeah, I just wanted to

talk to you for a minute.

Okay.

(SIGHS)

I got to get on

the ship with Andy

and try to fix this.

Are you f***ing kidding?

What am I going to do,

let him go alone?

No, we're going to

think of something else.

There's nothing

else to do, okay?

I hate to tell you,

but that little

dumb f*** has put us

in the worst

possible position, okay?

And if they don't

get the money from him,

they're coming after us.

So what else

do you want me to do?

You know what

I don't want to do?

I don't want to f***ing

visit you in jail like

we're visiting your dad,

and raising

those kids on my own.

So it's my...

I don't want to

fight with you

about this, okay?

I know what I'm doing,

all right?

Will you just trust me?

Please?

Nothing is going to happen.

All right? I promise.

Mmm.

(INMATES TALKING INDISTINCTLY)

BUD:
That shitbag

Briggs was here

for a couple of years.

He tried to smash

some guy's head in

with a cinder block.

Look, I mentioned

this to Sebastian.

We're doing another run.

Can you get me

on your old boat?

You mean the Borden?

(CHUCKLES) Remember

when you were little,

you and Sebastian,

you broke into

McTier's warehouse,

stole all that

Mardi Gras jewelry,

and you came back

to the house with a great

big box of them beads?

You thought

they were diamonds.

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Aaron Guzikowski

Aaron Guzikowski is an American screenwriter. He is best known for writing the 2013 film Prisoners and creating the 2014 television series The Red Road. more…

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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